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Concordia University-Montreal psychology professor, Adam Radomsky, is working with Gillian Alcolado, a PhD candidate in clinical psychology, on an important study of how CBT can be used to help to tap into false beliefs about one’s memory, and thereby reverse an often debilitating symptom of OCD: compulsive checking. Research has shown that low confidence in one’s memory can be a factor that causes checking. In order to reduce compulsive checking, Alcolado and Radomsky came up with ...
People provided with a real-time readout of their brain activity can learn to control that activity and decrease their anxiety, according to a new study. For the study, researchers at Yale University used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), to display the activity of the orbitofrontal cortex, a brain region just above the eyes, to people while they lay in a brain scanner. Through a process of trial and error, these people were able to learn to control their brain activity, ...
Just weeks before the long-awaited publication of a new edition of the so-called bible of mental disorders (DSM V), the federal government’s most prominent psychiatric expert has said the book suffers from a scientific “lack of validity.” The expert, Dr. Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, said in an interview Monday that his goal was to reshape the direction of psychiatric research to focus on biology, genetics and neuroscience so that ...
